Word: consciousnesses
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...statewide voter referendums, is the only statute in the U.S. allowing doctors to write lethal prescriptions for terminally ill patients who want to control the time and place of their death. The law would not affect a case like Schiavo's: patients qualify only if they are fully conscious and able to administer their own overdose. But Oregon represents a new frontier in the right-to-die movement by legalizing--and stringently regulating--a practice deemed a crime in most other states...
...understand about a vegetative state is that it allows one to be awake but not aware. (In a coma, you are unresponsive and your eyes are closed.) Because the sleep-wake cycle and certain eye movements are not controlled by the cortex or the thalamus, they can continue without conscious awareness. Even acts of crying and smiling may be reflexive events that do not occur in response to specific stimuli...
...VEGETATIVE STATE DIFFERENT FROM A MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE? A comparatively new designation, minimally conscious state describes people who are not in a vegetative state but who don't show consistent evidence of awareness. For example, they may indicate yes-or-no responses even if they aren't accurate. (Schiavo's parents have argued that their daughter is minimally conscious.) A recent study using specialized brain scans found near normal activity levels in the cortical language centers of some such patients when their loved ones spoke to them, indicating they may retain the potential for cognitive function. Patients in a minimally...
...made a conscious decision that this year will be better, we’re going to go undefeated in 2005,” Banfield says. “Looking back to November when no one thought we would make it this far, when everyone was turning their heads and laughing if you ever thought Harvard was making the NCAA tournament. And we proved them wrong. And that’s what our team is about—thriving in challenge...
...House for a new building to house the intelligence chief and his staff. Symbolically at least, it indicates that the DNI--who has the authority to hire 500 employees but whose role in the byzantine intelligence bureaucracy is still not entirely clear--will have a solid foothold in turf-conscious Washington. The news came as a particular blow to Pentagon boosters, who are fearful that the DNI will threaten the Defense Department's 80% share of the $40 billion U.S. intelligence budget...